Events

Highlands Ranch: Young adult author Sarah Ockler’s, whose critically acclaimed YA bestsellers include Twenty Boy Summer,
Fixing Delilah, and Bittersweet, has received the ALA’s
Best Fiction for Young Adults, Girls’ Life Top 100 Must Reads, IndieNext
list picks, and more. Her short fiction and essays will be featured in
two upcoming young adult anthologies: Defy the Dark and Dear Teen Me. Ockler will read from and sign her poignant and romantic new book for teen readers The Book of Broken Hearts (Simon & Schuster). Can’t make it to the signing? Request an autographed copy here: books@tatteredcover.com Sarah Ockler’s website

Colfax Avenue: Activist, journalist, and author Ru Freeman will read from and sign her new novel On Sal Mal Lane ($26.00 Graywolf Press), a tender, evocative novel about the years leading up to the Sri Lankan civil war. “Ru Freeman’s new novel moves like a stage play in a dream. Dread hovers over the richness, childhood’s abandon faces the crushing power of adulthood, and we live for a time in a world many of us did not imagine. And we fear what might be coming.” —Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Queen of America Can’t make it to the signing? Request an autographed copy here: books@tatteredcover.com Ru Freeman’s website

Historic LoDo: Journalist Nathanael Johnson will discuss and sign his book All Natural: A Skeptic’s Quest to Discover If the Natural Approach to Diet, Childbirth, Healing, and the Environment Really Keeps Us Healthier and Happier (Rodale). In this intelligent, wry, and scrupulously reported narrative, Johnson teases fact from faith and offers a rousing and original vision for a middle ground between natural and technological solutions that will assuage frustrated environmentalists, perplexed parents, and confused consumers alike. Can’t make it to the signing? Request an autographed copy here: books@tatteredcover.com Nathanael Johnson’s website